Suspender attachment.



c. H. BRADLEY.. SUSPENDBR ATTACHMENT.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 28, 1913.

1,123,231. Patented Jan.5, 1915.

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UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

CHARLES H. BRADLEY, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

SUSPENDER ATTACHMENT.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES H. BRADLEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Suspender Attachments, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of the invention is to enable a man to hold his trousers up and his shirt down in a simple and comfortable manner by means of suspenders which will be concealed beneath his shirt,and to do this without wrinkling or mutilating the shirt. To accomplish this result without having to alter the shirt, advantage is taken of the slits or vents which are ordinarily formed at the bottom of the underarm seams of the shirt, 2'. e. at the sides of the shirt; and my devices are constructed to pass through these vents,and they have each two upwardly extended elongated loops or arms,one for attachment with the suspender and one for engagement with the trouser button,said loops being connected at their lower ends by a narrow piece which lies in the shirt vent, and does not therefore much wrinkle the shirt.

The device is constructed with especial reference to making it cheap, durable and efficient,and the invention resides in the construction and the combinations of parts, shown in the drawing and hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawing Figure 1 shows in dotted lines the invention in use. Fig. 2 is a view of one end of the suspender with the device attached thereto showing how it passes through the vent or slit of the shirt; and Fig. 3 is an elevation of one of said devices.

As shown, the device consists of two arms A and E which are connected at their lower ends by a narrow neck B. These three parts lie normally in substantially the same vertical plane. The arm A is the longer of the two, and it is in the form of a loop which surrounds the smaller and shorter arm E. Preferably the device is stamped out of thin resilient metal,the two arms and the neck being integral. It is not, however, essential to the invention that the device be made precisely as last above stated. The long loop shaped arm A has at its upper end a cross bar to which the end of the suspender S may be attached in any suitable manner.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed August 28, 1913.

Patented Jan. 5, 1915.

Serial No. 787,043.

The upper end of the arm E has a recess or rest F for engagement with the stem of the trousers button. Overhanging this button rest is a hook f, which extends'up on one side of the button rest and over the same. On the other side of the button rest is a finger 7 which extends up to a point close to the end of hook 7", so as to leave between them a narrow mouth 7 through which the button shank must pass to and from the recess.

In use the suspender is put on under the shirt. The inner member E is then thrustforward, out of the plane of member A, and passed through the slit or vent 0 of the shirt, and the shirt pulled down until the neck B lies in said vent and near the upper end thereof. The arm A will now be inside the shirt, and the arm E will be outside, and can be hooked onto the trouser button, by lateral movement which threads the button stem through the mouth f to the button rest F and beneath the protecting hook f. ()f course, it will be understood that the arm E should be of such length that it will reach the trouser button without pulling the shirt up. Indeed one of the desirable characteristics of the device is that it holds the shirt down, because the shirt will be lightly clamped between the two arms A and E.

Having described my invention, I claim:

1. A suspender attachment comprising inner and outer elongated loops, and a narrow connection therebetween at their lower ends adapted to extend through the vent in the lower edge of a shirt, one of said loops being adapted for connection at its upper end to a suspender, and the other of said loops having means to engage a trouser button.

2. A suspender attachment comprising an outer loop shaped arm, a shorter arm which lies within said loop shaped arm, and a narrow connection between said arms at their lower ends adapted to extend through the vent in the lower edge of a shirt, the loop shaped arm being adapted for connection at its upper end to a suspender, and the other arm having in its upper end a recess adapted to engage under the stem of a trouser button, and having also a laterally extended hook which overlies said recess.

3. A suspender attachment comprising an outer loop shaped arm, a shorter arm which lies within the loop shaped arm, and a narrow connection between said arms at their lower ends adapted to extend throughthe vent in the lower edge of the shirt, saidloop shaped arm being adapted for connection at its upper end to a suspender, and the other of said arms having at its upper end a reparts an outer loo shaped arm having at its iippenend means for attaching the suspender,"a shorter arm Which lies Within the outer arm and in substantially the same verticalplane, and a neck Which is integral With'and connectsthe lower ends of said arms, the said inner arm having at its upper endrai button rest. I

5. A suspender attachment comprising an outer: loop shaped arm, a shorter arm which lies Within the loop shaped arm, and a narrow-neck conn'e'cting'the lower ends of said arms, the outer arm having at its upper end means for connecting aysuspender thereto and thejn'ner arm having at'itsupper'end ajsingle centrally placed button rest.

In testimony whereof, I vhereunto afii-X, my signature inlthe prese'nce of two CHARLES H. BRADLEY.

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